Lets see... If the US makes a law to outlaw spam, who actually thinks this would stop any spam? How are you going to go after companies that spam from outside of the US? How do you define spam?
The best idea I have heard so far is to refuse email from networks that are known to be spam havens. This idea seems to make people really upset, but I can't understand why. If you are willing to take such a ridiculous (and futile) step such as making laws, then why does this seem like such an outlandish idea? It would probably only require a very small percentage of servers doing something like this to make a major difference. Imagine if 25% of the people you tried to email to couldn't receive your email because your provider allowed (or at least did nothing relevant to stop) spammers to exist on their network. You wouldn't complain or switch providers? Imagine if NOT being in something like the SPEWS database was an incentive for people to use your service. This is a market economy, right? So far the market supports spammers. If we want to get rid of spam, then the market must become hostile to it. TimH _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
